The essays in this new collection all by outstanding experts in the field of modern literature provide a different and more complex sense of Eliot s place in literary history The eight essays are The Waste Land Fifty Years After by A Walton Litz The Urban Apocalypse by Hugh Kenner The First Waste Land by Richard Ellmann The Waste Land Paris 1922 by Helen Gardner New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land by Robert Langbaum Precipitating Eliot by Robert M Adams Fear in the Way The Design of Eliot s Drama by Michael Goldman and Anglican Eliot by Donald Davie Originally published in 1973 The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print on demand technology to again make available previously out of print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905